Yuanta Financial : makes a supplementary announcement on the change of director of Yuanta Securities (Thailand) on August 19, 2016

January 13, 2017

Yuanta Financial Holdings makes a supplementary announcement on the change of director of Yuanta Securities (Thailand) on August 19, 2016

1. Date of occurrence of the change: 2017/01/13

2. Appointment of or changed personnel (juristic-person director,

   juristic-person supervisor, independent director, natural-person director or natural-person supervisor): Natural-person director

3. Title, name and resume of the replaced personnel: NA

4. Title, name and resume of the new personnel: Mr. Chen, Chi-Chang/President of Yuanta Securities

5. Type of the change (please enter: "resignation", "discharge", "tenure expired", "death" or "new appointment" ): New appointment

6. Reason for the change: New appointment

7. Number of shares held by the new personnel at the time of appointment: NA

8. Original term (from to ): NA

9. Effective date of the new appointment: 2017/01/13

10. Rate of turnover of directors of the same term: 1/6

11. Rate of turnover of supervisor of the same term: NA

12. Rate of turnover of independent director of the same term: NA

13. Change in one-third or more of directors ("Yes" or "No"): No

14. Any other matters that need to be specified: The appointment of director has been approved by SEC of Thailand with the official effective date of 2017/01/13.